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He was home-schooled through the second grade and was then incorrectly placed in the fourth grade — effectively double-promoting him — the following year when he enrolled in the Michigan Connections Academy, an online school.

The MSHAA ruled that the Yaseens and Walled Lake administrators acted appropriately three years ago when they listed him as a freshman, correcting the error that had been made nine years ago.

“In 15 years of working here, this is as complicated of a student record situation as I’ve ever seen,” MHSAA executive director Mark Uyl said. “I’ve never looked at so many student records and transcripts.

“At the end of the day, our job isn’t to get it fast, it’s to get it right. I really think that with what’s happened the last three weeks we’ve done that.”

After ruling Yaseen ineligible, the MHSAA’s executive committee recently received more records that proved Yaseen was never a high school student prior to enrolling at Western.

“We finally got the full academic record and looked at the home-school work he did independently as well as the classes he took through the online academy,” Uyl said. “The confusion is with the last year he took some online classes — 2015-16 — and his first year at Walled Lake in 2016-17.

“Walled Lake initially looked at the records and said: ‘Yeah, he’s a freshman and will be in the graduating Class of 2020.’ That’s how they did classify him. Some of the online classes did transfer in, which is perfect allowed by rule, it was less than half.”

The reversal ended a tumultuous few weeks in the Yaseen household. Although Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald assured the family that it would honor the scholarship even if he didn’t play this season, no one in the family wanted to see him sit out his senior season.

“I haven’t been more excited in months,” said his father, Khalid Yaseen. “I’m glad they continued to do the right thing. I haven’t gotten a lot of other stuff done over the last few weeks.

“But we’re really excited.”

Mick McCabe is a former longtime columnist for the Detroit Free Press. Contact him at mick.mccabe11@gmail.com. Follow him on Twitter @mickmccabe1